Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Brandis, the Attorney-General and the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Attorney, I refer to your latest announcement that the government plans to make control orders applicable to children as young as 14 and to extend the duration that control orders can apply to 28 days. What evidence exists that this further erosion of the fundamental freedoms we enjoy as Australians will do anything at all to make our communities safer? What evidence exists to suggest that the last four tranches of draconian so-called antiterror legislation have made Australia safer in any way?